Think tanks mobilized citizens to draft government-spending-cut plans

Evidence

The newsletter also relayed information on the “Better Government Contests”—a 1991 initiative of the Pioneer Institute in Boston that rapidly spread throughout the network. Soliciting “citizen plans to cut government spending,” these contests mobilized government representatives who promised implementation. — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 585

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Partisan think tanks converted neoliberal philosophy into practical political tools. — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 1912; Postwar business conservatives built think tanks that functioned like political parties without mass support. — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 1440

Broader Connections

• Partisan think tanks converted neoliberal philosophy into practical political tools. #expands (0.80) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1912
• Postwar business conservatives built think tanks that functioned like political parties without mass support. #exemplifies (0.75) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1440